Sunday in Pasadena’s Old Town district (SoCal’s sixth most prestigious retail and dining area*) corralled a herd of Prancing Horses on Colorado Boulevard for the 2010 Concourso Italiano. To TB, there’s nothing like an afternoon of classic Ferraris on display–especially for free, which this event was thanks to their fine sponsors.
Walking past anything made post-1970 (after [...]
more...Todd E. Johnson is the William K. and Delores S. Brehm Associate Professor of Worship, Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.
A doctoral student of mine from the Seventh Day Adventist tradition recently began a research paper on the observance of the Sabbath in the Christian churches in [...]
more...Dr. Jay Phelan is president and dean at North Park Seminary in Chicago. In February 2010 he offered this prayer to a gathering of Evangelical Covenant pastors at the Covenant’s Midwinter Conference held in Denver.
It has been good to be here Lord. It has been good to see colleagues and friends. It has been good to [...]
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Well, Burner readers, it has been a momentous couple of weeks for The Burner Blog. We’ve already received great traffic on Marianne Meye Thompson’s response to A New Kind of Christianity. Traffic has increased considerably since the review was posted and TB is confident that the monthly unique visitor count will surpass the 1000 mark for [...]
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Another weekend, another birthday party, another coversation with a small child:
Child: Dada, I want Jegus (Jesus) come to my birthday party.
TB: Buddy, Jesus can’t come to your party. He’s up in heaven with God.
Child: No, I want Jegus come to my party!
TB (trying to be theologically correct): Well, Jesus will be [...]
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This past Friday, Fuller’s Office of Urban Initiatives cosponsored the annual Tamales de la Paz celebration in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Urban Initiatives folks have been hard at work with projects like Mama’s Hot Tamales Cafe , a small restaurant serving varieties of tamales and teaching workforce skills to [...]
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